Title: Clow Contemplations
Author: SilverAnaya
Rating: PG for language
Disclaimer: Blah blah you know how it goes...I don't own CCS.

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A/N: CherryBlossom asked which cards are masculine and which are feminine. My answer - I have the card set that was released last year or so (ya know the book that came with the cards). I look at the pictures on the cards. If they look like women then I write them as such. The same with the male type cards. Cards that are animals I tend to write as male type. The other thing I base my writings on is how they are portrayed in the episodes (huggles her 7 jap dvds). Some cards are referred to in the show as being specifically male or female (flower, fight, dark, and light are all female. shadow and time are definitely male.) Hope that helps ya out some.
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Five hundred years ago, we - the Clow Cards - were sealed in a special book. Our guardian fell asleep and a young girl released us from our confinement. Now we are being recaptured one by one. These are our stories.

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+Episode 4 - Overgrowth+

Even the gentlest of us all can be persuaded to cause mischief if left in the proper company.

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Heeeyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!! How ya doing?! I'm the Rain Card. I'm gonna tell ya mine and Wood's story 'cuz we were both captured at the same time. Well, that and Wood refused to set foot in the same room with me. She says I give her a headache...

Well anyways, here we go! Apparently it was Lady Sakura's turn to clean the house one Sunday. She found Wood stuffed under a rug in the living room. Then a bit later, she found ME in the basement, covered in ink. Before she got a chance to clean me off and write her name on us, a contraption she calls a telephone rang. She rushed out and I decided to wash myself off.

After doing so, I asked Wood if she was thirsty. She was, and in giving her water, she started growing. An hour later, she was big enough to fill the basement and started up the stairs to the first floor. I heard Lady Sakura recite the capture phrase and Wood turned back into card form. As I heard Lady Sakura come down the stairs, I downpoured onto Wood, causing her to activate and grow again. This time, she stretched through the whole house. When she finally made it out the upper floor windows...wait, what did she do? *thinks for a bit*

**Wood Materializes**
Wood: I bloomed.
Rain: WHAT?!?!?!?!?!
Wood: You heard me. I bloomed. It's a natural habit when sunlight hits me ok. Sheesh.
**Wood goes back into card form**

O.o ... Anyways Lady Sakura, Kero, and Tomoyo finally made it into the basement while Wood was basking in the sun. I had fun soaking Lady Sakura in a downpour for a while. That's me! I just like to have fun. ^_^ Lady Sakura used The Watery Card to suppress me and capture me. Then Wood just turned back into a card without prompting and allowed herself to be captured... such a party pooper. After Wood and I were back in card form, she wrote her name on us before doing anything else.

**Wood comes out again and pokes Rain**
Oh yeah, and because of mine and Wood's antics...
**Wood pokes Rain again**
*sighs* Ok ok. Because of MY antics, Lady Sakura had to clean the house all over again.